Copper secondary smelting and alloying · Virginia

Howell Metals

New Market, VA · ~156 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Howell Metals runs at 282% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Copper secondary smelting and alloying workplace, earning a grade F.

Howell Metals: 9.3 TCR = 282% of Copper secondary smelting and alloying BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Howell Metals safety composite

Howell Metals scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 9%), blended into one 0-100 breakdown against same-industry peers. A missing measure drops out and redistributes its weight rather than deflating the score. This is a per-dimension breakdown, distinct from the single letter grade above it (which weights TCR alone against the BLS industry benchmark).

F

20/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.3 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.08 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% of industry peers

Benchmarked live against every credibly-rated employer in the same NAICS industry code in the current OSHA extract (a segment must have at least 8 rated peers to benchmark). Not a legal or compliance determination; PlainSafetyScore's own weighting (TCR 40%, DART 35%, fatalities 25%).

Rising injury rate

Howell Metals: 7.8 → 10.8 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 10.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.65× in 2022

Howell Metals's TCR rose 3.0 from 7.8 in 2019 to 10.8 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 0.65× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331420 · New Market, VA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 9.3 · 282% of ind

  • DART 6.1 DART
  • RANK P10
  • PHOTO Royal Metal Powders
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 22 inj
  • SIZE ~156 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Royal Metal Powders (0.0 TCR gap)

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Howell Metals in the TCR neighbourhood

Average Total Case Rate among this establishment and nearest same-industry peers

TCR

What this shows Howell Metals averages 9.3 TCR (282% of the Copper secondary smelting and alloying BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

Howell Metals TCR series: 2019=7.8 · 2022=10.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Howell Metals falls in its industry

198 Copper secondary smelting and establishments

Safer than 10% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Howell Metals (156 employees, TCR 9.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 employees and a TCR of 3.7 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 30 entities by Average employees (X) and Total Case Rate (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Larger & higher-riskSmaller & higher-riskLarger & saferSmaller & safer than peers 0200400600 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Howell Metals
Howell Metals (156 employees, TCR 9.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Howell Metals has more employees than the Copper secondary smelting and alloying median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.7. Workforce size and injury rate do not always move together within the same industry -- some of its smaller peers run higher rates than its larger ones, and vice versa.

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year TCR DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2022 10.8 6.1 12 4 0
2019 7.8 4.2 10 5 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331420 · VA · New Market

198 Copper secondary smelting and alloying employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,673 rated employers in Virginia with headcount on file · 5 employers in New Market, VA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Royal Metal Powders 9.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mueller Copper Tube West Co. 9.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR I. Schumann & Co. 9.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Luvata Waterbury 9.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Silent-Aire Mission Critical Services 156 FTE
STATE-SIZE C280 Sandston PC 156 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ten Oaks LLC 156 FTE
STATE-SIZE Scholle IPN Chilhowie 156 FTE
CITY-NEAR Howell Metal Company 167 FTE
CITY-NEAR Life Care Center of New Market 157 FTE
CITY-NEAR Howell Metals dba Precision Tube 123 FTE
CITY-NEAR New Market 84 FTE
NAT-TCR Cornerstone Restoration Services, LLC 9.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Mackenthun's Supermarket Inc 9.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Noble Dairy, LLC. 9.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Orchards Store 9.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Somerwoods Nursing & Rehabilitation 156 FTE
NAT-SIZE 9215-BUR 156 FTE
NAT-SIZE 9215-AUS 156 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1685 Marthaler 156 FTE

Rel codes: NAICS-TCR · STATE-SIZE · CITY-NEAR · NAT-TCR/NAT-SIZE cross-state. Read with this employer →

Data Source: OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA), mandatory establishment-level injury/illness reports. Grades compare employer Total Case Rate (TCR) to BLS IIF industry benchmarks. Data covers years reported by this establishment: 2022, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.